Monday, September 30, 2013

Few dumb managers

Once an announcement made in our office that a team of UK operator is going to visit us and if we are able to please them, we will be able to grab the project .The managers were given the responsibility to prepare the presentation by top management and managers passed on to us .:)
We were a team of 4 to prepare the same and were asked to present them after 2 days.

We shared our ideas about how we work , how we handle the operations in our current assignment etc. and made a power point with bullet points showing every aspect we had encountered till then.The day came and we had to give the demo ,2 managers were supposed to evaluate the same.We presented our part individually and very briefly .If I were the manager then I would have approach the top management to assign the responsibility to these engineers because the presentation was so well structured and precise and also would have appreciated the hours they have putted in to prepare it .But I couldn't be more wrong because once the presentation was over

one Manager turns to another and laughs
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"Isn't the presentation just like an engineer thing?  We are looking for business proposal  and you are showing us what you are currently doing ? "

Our part - silence .. and standing like an.....  ( You can think of any word for fill in the blank which you can relate to the scenario )

The more recent incident is just a week old .I applied for a specific role and the interviewers ( All managers) shortlisted my CV .I went there at 8:30 AM accurate and submitted my CV ,Waited there for about 3 hours then the got a call to come in a meeting room where 3 managers were waiting .
Interview started with general greetings .

One of them asked :-  So give me your brief intro and what have you done till now in your professional career ?

Me - Blah bah .....

Interviewer :- We do this n that.... ( elaborated his work)
Interviewer :-  Do you know someone from our dept ?
Me             :-  Yes, One of my colleague from previous organization works here.
Interview    : - Your profile is good but it doesn't fulfill our requirement. Thanks for coming.
Me            :-  Again went blank.

I came out thinking what was that ? My colleague and I had the same profile with almost same experience of domain then what went wrong ? If I don't fit for the role then what was the purpose to call me for interview , CV shortlisting and making me wait for 3 hours just to say this crap ? As if it was pre decided not to ask anything for the role.
The interview lasted about 8 minutes.  
The managers seating there proved the subject line of this blog .
 
Moral :- No matter what you do , Some manager can always find faults in you.

Is your manager  /boss  does the same ? If yes then you can anonymously curse him/her on the comments section below. :)


2 comments:

  1. Amazing Bhai,didn't know this side of your's you are really good at writing

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  2. Amazing Bhai,didn't know this side of your's you are really good at writing

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